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Via Spontaneous Symmetry, a fascinating story about parallel processing and the power of blogging: Normally, when [a mathematician] seeks a proof, he locks himself in a room with a chalkboard for long periods of time. He may consult his peers at his university, he may read books, he may look through papers, but the majority […]

I'm pleased to present the new TGR: now with more green! I've spent some time over the past few weeks learning a little CSS, PHP and Java (and I apologize for being so late to that party). I've been experimenting behind the scenes with TGR and tonight I'm excited to make those changes official. So, what's […]

Why did a post up titled "How To Play Natural Gas With Small Cap Stocks" pop up in Silicon Alley Insider's RSS feed? A little investigating (elementary, my dear Watson) shows that it's actually from The Money Game - another blog under the Business Insider umbrella. The blogs themselves and current RSS feeds show no […]

Google Reader has become an inexorable part of my daily life. It's the only way I can keep up with the amount of reading I do each day, and as much as I love the service, there are a few things I miss. Here's my wishlist for Google Reader: Intelligent favorites: Right now, I have […]

Some things are changing around here, as they do every couple months when I get bored of looking at the same layout. There may be a little transition trouble; please let me know in the comments if you see anything suspicious!

There is a fascinating debate raging right now among the world's most prominent economists, who are kicking and screaming at each other across newspaper columns, interviews, and their personal blogs. The diatribe was ignited by this January 22 opinion in the WSJ by the esteemed Robert Barro, whose class I was fortunate enough to attend one […]

I am really happy with my WordPress installation, and I love my Mac, so I was rather disappointed to find that they don't play nicely together in one regard. The TinyMCE editor has a devilish tendency to strip line breaks if accessed in Safari 3+, both in the visual and code views. The prospect of […]

So I'm starting to get comfortable with this blog business, though I need to learn some CSS quickly to build a better theme... Basically there are a few things I want to put here: Articles I want to share, comment on or otherwise disparage. Quotes I want to share, comment on or otherwise disparage. Anything […]

Of course I turned to R when I began thinking about titles, and this is what she had to say: WHY are you doing a blog thats for losers!! You sohuld call it thehomieg.com or monkey-dolores.com or ilikelatkes.com And dont ask dad for suggestions he is not the brightest person for these creative things ya […]

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